4—Lancaster Farming, June 16, 1962 From Where We Stand... Stronghold of Morality - The Farm Home Two researcher j at the Pennsyl vania State University have found out something about farm youth that we could have told them before they con ducted their extensive survey. They found out that while all teen agers are less conservative than they were 13 years ago when a similar sur vey was conducted, the last great strong hold of honest morality is the farm home Young persons from open country non-farm homes were less critical of behavior such as social drinking and use of tobacco than were farm-reared youth, and the teenagers from villages were least critical of social misbehavior. They found that nearness to urban centers did not seem to influence the at titudes of farm youth in the 13 years despite the increased rural-urban rela tionships. The study, recently completed by sociologists. Fern K Wilhts and Robert C Bealer, compared the attitudes of 4,232 rural youth in 1960 with of their counterparts in 1947 It appears from the study that the farm home still has a strong influence on the youth, even if the home is in close proximity to large cities. The survey report stated “Farm youth on the outskirts of Pittsburgh and Phila-. delphia were nearly as traditional in their attitudes as farm youth living many miles from cities ” As we said at the beginning of this piece, we have known for a long time that it is the home, and not the location of the house, that trains youth in truths and values of ethics and morals It is the home that helps the young people form a set of values by which they will weigh the decisions they will be called upon to make The set of values young people need can not be found on the street corners and in the pool halls. We do not mean, to be prudish or puritanical about the whole matter We simply want to cast a vote in favor of the farm home as an excellent place to raise children. And if there is one thing this old world needs, it is a place where today’s children the adults of the space age, can find some basic values built on a premise other than, physical strength and the fear of physical strength. At least that's how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ All That Goes Up! The old saying “everything that goes up must come down” does not ap pear to apply to real estate values. In a recent report from the U S. Department of Agriculture, the market value ol farm real estate as of March 1, was quoted at five per cent higher than the previous year. And, the report continued, the out look is for a moderate advance in the six months following March 1 . The total market value of farm real flood Labi 1 - An mfoiinatue lilul oi rag on ,i gaimenl is vn< of ,he lust buvmg guides, |nlii*\i-, J'pimic Tharp. Pinn Li.hi i \tension Mot lung spei .ii'i-r A good inlonn.il i\i‘ J ibij s,i()fies fibi i finish tin and slmnkage control estate in the U S was $l3B billion on March 1, which figures out to an aver age ]ust about $123 per acre But we think thfe most interesting part of the report was one of the inci dental items In the past, one of the selling points of a farm was the buildings on the land. Now it appears that buildings ■have become one of the minor factors. The report shows that of the $41,- 000 market value of the average farm, only about $8,500 was accounted for by buildings. The other $32,500 was for land But one thing has changed very little in the real estate market. The report shows that over 80 per cent of all sales of farm real estate dur ing the year ending March 1, 1962, in volved the use of some kind of credit. About 30 percent of the sales were made on some sort of contract, but 50 per cent were with conventional mort gage financing Now if there is a moral here at all, w 6 suppose it is this 1 While farmers may not be getting rich in the business, it is a good sign that there are still farmers willing to buy land on a higher market with borrowed money Farmers still have confidence in themselves and their ability to make a living on the farm At least that’s how it looks from where we stand In the mail this week came a publi cation from a national dairy food com pany. The magazine was labeled “Produc er Edition” and featured picture stories of twelve dairymen who were milk pro ducers for the food company Several of the stories were quite interesting, but more to the point were the pictures An ancient proverb says a picture is worth 10,000 words, and in many of the cases mentioned above, the words would never have been written Judging from the photos of barns and milk houses on the 12 midwestern dairy farms featured in this one issue, not one could have sold a drop of milk in Lancaster County. If Lancaster County dairymen have a fight with out-of-state milk, we feel this is it' If the health standards of the areas wanting to ship milk into Lancaster County’s markets are upgraded to cor respond to local standards, there will be very little competition from other areas. If the dairymen of this county wish to protect their maikets, we believe each and every one of them should wholeheartedly back the dairy company inspectors in maintaining sanitary regu lations We believe further it will be to the benefit of county dairymen to seek, not more lenient, but more rigid health regulations for the dairy farm. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. 1 .> -0- <*• ■> -0-$- Lancaster Forming Established November 4, Lancaster Coiintj’s Own Farm Published eiery Satui- Weekly P O Bo\ 1324 Lancaster, Penna, P O Bo\ 2GG - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Main St Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 or Lititz MA G-2191 Jack Owen Editor Kobe it f! Campbell Advei Using Director ★ ★ ★ ★ Dairy Health Rules day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1879. Subscription Rates $2 per year, three years $3. Single copy Price 5 cents. 1 Member Pa Newspapers Pub-, lisheis Association - National] Editorial Association. 4 Bible Materia! Ps ilm 24, Revela tion ") 7 9-17 11 15 19 IH% otloajxl Ueatling. Psalm 148 Praise In Heaven Lesson for June 17,1962 SOME of our hymns about heav en are well-meant but stupid For example there is one that contains the couplet: “Where congregations ne’er break up And Sabbaths have no end ” What a terrible place! You would never have a change to speak to any one, never any opportunity to do anything. Just stand' and sing, or (worse yet) listen to ser mons forever and ever. We may be thankful no sucb picture is given Dr. Foreman us m the Bible. Yet we can understand where the chui ch loving author of the poem got his idea—probably from those scenes m the book of Revelation wheie voices without number join in piaise to Almighty God. These passages, including some of the giandest word-pictures in the book of Revelation, give us a staiting point for some thoughts about worship, especially that aspect of worship which we call praise of adoiation Praise of God versus praise of man Fust, there is ceitainly a dif ference between the praise of God and the praise of man. A man may or may not deserve our en thusiasm; we can praise men too much But we never can praise God enough. Furtheimore, when we praise other men, we may be doing something for their ego, something to bolster their self respect, something to cheer their discouragement. We may also (provided we don’t overdo it) help along their reputation and their career, by judicious praise. A good and wise teacher, by praise just at the right time, may guide a boy into a useful and even brilliant life-work. (What are "recommendations” but sheets of praises?) Something is added to a person by praise; or when the praise is ftilitaken, something may be subtracted. (Don’t you Now Is The Time . . . Corn growers are reminded of the great danger of sheanng off corn plant roots with the cultivators, as the corn gets larger, the roots grow out between the rows. In many cases yields aie reduced by cutting off these loots, the cultivator should be set wider with each cultivation. The practice of seeding domestic ne grass or field biomegrass after the last cul tivation of corn is still a good one; this pio virtes for winter cover of the soil and a gteeu manure crop to plow down nevt , r , T , r oAfTT'w s, I )nn §'> tlle late 20 pounds per acre im i iaa. ax. »i xxxxi niedlately following the final cultivation. Plea&e Note in fields where Atnzine lias been used to con trol weeds the co\er ciop seeding is not recommended. TO BEWARE OF OATS HAY Local growers who are plan ning to make hay from their spring oats aie lennnded of the danger of oats hay poison ing if the crop is made into hay when tinning to the ripe color and if fed immediately. We recommend that the crop be made into hay or silage in the blossom to l milk stage (be fore turning to ripe <olor) and then allowed to cure in the mow for at least six weeks before feeding. When being made into sHage a feed feel pretty small when someon, has buttered you up beyond I.T ognition?) God is, of course, not affected In this way. He doesn’t need to have his reputation built up, j,® doesn’t need lecommendations he does not try to live up to the nice things said about him' {L is above these things, above the loftiest adoration we can oiler From the heart Another important difference between the praise of God and of man is this. The one who praises men hopes to get some thing out of it, indeed even when we praise God we rather sheep ishly hope he will take special note of it and remember it when we need a favor. But the piaisi of heaven is not (as Samuel John son said about gratitude) “a five ly sense of favors to come ” it rises out of a grateful heait, it is spontaneous and sincere, it has no pnee-tag, yet it is beyond price. Such praise is possible even here and now. The necessities of life more or less force us to con suit our clocks and calendars to see when it is time to worship God. Thus we get into the regret table habit of putting off our ex pressions of gratitude until after 11 A.M. next Sunday, and if we stay away from church, then God goes forgotten (so far as we are concerned) for another week What we ought to be doing (othei wise heaven will embarrass us) is to cultivate the thankful heart at all times, week-days and Sun days “Thank you, God,” may not be rated an elegant prayer m Boston; but when it is heartfelt, God does not look it over for fancy language. To God and the lamb One other, and very important, point strikes us as we read these great lines from Revelation ado ration is rendered at the same time to God and to the Lamo that is, to God and to Christ We can see how at the very outset of the Christian religion, it was natural to think of God and Christ sharing the same Throne The real test of whether a person actually believes in the God-hood of Christ is whether he offers prayer and praise to him. In church he does, of course; but does he quietly m his own private prayers’ Later on in the book of Revelation we hear about prayer offered to a Beast, to a Dragon, to an Image, and this is pictured as nothing less than blasphemy. To offer prayer and praise to any person or thing that is not God, is to sink into idolatry. Yet to refuse prayer and praise where it belongs, is to make religion cheap and small (Baaed on outlines copyrighted ftp the Division of Christian Education. National Council •( tho Churches of Christ In iho XJ. f. A. Released bf Community Press Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Cultivate Corn Carefully To Seed Cover Crop In Corn additive preservative should be added. TO SPRAY ROSE BUSHF^ Rose gardeners shou'd make a special effort to spray weekly for the control of spot and powdery mildew, the use of either maneb or phal tan for black spot and yvett able sulphur for powdery mil dew will give good results TO PROTECT TOMATO PLANTS Home gardeners with t 0 matoes should protect their (Continued on page 5)
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